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Lichess Official Blog

Strongest chess player, ever

Thibault Duplessis, developer Announcements

Lichess upgrades all artificial intelligence servers to the best chess engine in the world!

This week, something wonderful happened. Stockfish, the favorite open source competitor in the race for the best chess engine, has won the TCEC tournament.

Here are the chess engines ratings at the end of the tournament:

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T-Shirts and Hoodies are now available

James 'Clarkey' Clarke Announcements

For a limited time you can show your support for lichess.org by purchasing a t-shirt or hoodie.

Are you a fan of lichess and want the world to know it? For 2 weeks starting today, you can set an order for either a Men's or Women's T-shirt, or Hoodie Jumper. Just go to teespring.com/lichess-shirts and reserve your order.

We've tried to set the price as low as possible for the amount of people we expect to order. This is not about raising money for lichess, but awareness! The small excess that we receive ($0.58 per shirt) will go directly towards server costs.

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